Resources

“Canadian municipalities are reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through pilot projects, municipal programs, and more. However, financing these initiatives can be a significant challenge.

Our toolkit explains how your municipality can leverage private and community investors to help you take action on climate change in your community.

You will learn how you can:

• Harness people power through group purchasing and community owned renewable power
• Break the capital barriers with local improvements and energy performance contracts
• Create a funding cycle with green revolving funds and Green bonds

This guide is designed for municipalities completing Milestones 3 and 4 of the Partners for Climate Protection program – a partnership between ICLEI — Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI Canada) and FCM – but is applicable for communities of all sizes across Canada.”

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Climate change has a disproportionate impact on people experiencing homelessness, low-income residents, racialized minorities and other marginalized communities. In order to address issues of inequality and to ensure a better quality of life for all residents, municipalities must begin to integrate the concepts of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) into each stage of their climate action planning.

To help communities across Canada better understand and employ these concepts, the Partners for Climate Protection (PCP) program, from ICLEI Canada and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), has developed the Integrating equity, diversity and inclusion into municipal climate action resource. This introductory resource was created to help your municipality take the first step on their EDI journey. The resource demystifies key concepts, shares case studies and lessons learned, and provides a basic framework for making EDI a core part of your municipality’s everyday climate planning.

Designed for municipal staff tasked with developing local climate initiatives, this resource can help you:

• Learn the definitions of equity, diversity and inclusion
• Understand how EDI considerations fit into municipal climate action
• Identify how to apply EDI concepts to your work with the PCP Milestone Framework
• Collaborate with vulnerable members of the community
• Overcome common challenges and concerns”

The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has created resources to support municipalities with asset management in the face of climate change impacts.

CLIMAtlantic – Atlantic Canada’s climate services hub – has a repository of numerous resources related to climate change adaptation. Searches can be specified by type of climate hazard, type of solution, and more!

Through the work of their Climate Hub program – hubs of climate action that bring residents, businesses, researchers, and more together in municipalities to measure and advocate for climate action at the municipal level – the Climate Reality Project Canada has released a blog detailing some clear learnings on building municipal resilience in the face of climate change.

The Rockefeller Foundation’s City Resilience Framework details some key themes and services that city’s should carry out to ensure that their residents and systems are resilient in the face of climate change and other major disruptions.

A study out of Alberta found that restoring nature through nature-based climate solutions can help reduce the damage and wear on roads, and overall reduce the costs to municipalities https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-road-repairs-flooding-1.6809436.

The New Brunswick Environmental Network conducted a public polling study of understanding, perception, and support for nature-based climate solutions in New Brunswick. There were 643 respondents, and the final results are available here!

NB Environmental Network – General Public Study – Report

New resources and reports to support mental and psychosocial wellbeing in the face of responding the the impacts of flooding on communities reports now available here. As New Brunswick faces many instances and risks of flooding due to climate change, it is crucial to have supports in place for communities.